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No one explodes one of the longest-held misconceptions of music history better than Steve Lukather and his band Toto. The dominant pop-culture sound of the late-1970s and ''80s was not in fact the smash and sneer of punk, but a slick, polished amalgam of rock and R&B that was first staked out on Boz Scaggs'' Silk Degrees. That album was shaped in large part by the founding members of Toto, who were emerging as the most in-demand elite session muso-crew in LA, and further developed on the band''s self-titled three-million-selling debut smash of 1978. A string of hits followed for the band going into the ''80s and beyond. Running parallel to this, as stellar session players, Lukather and band-mates David Paich, Jeff Porcaro and Steve Porcaro were also the creative linchpins on some of the most successful, influential and enduring records of the era.

In The Gospel According to Luke, Lukather tells the Toto story: how a group of high school friends formed the band in 1977

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A lively . . . read . . . great anecdotes . . . Clean and sober at 60, Lukather is in a good place right now and this contented memoir mirrors that status * Classic Rock *

The Gospel According to Luke

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    A Paperback / softback by Steve Lukather, Paul Rees

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      Publisher Constable
      Published 18 September 2018
      ISBN-13 9781472126412
      978-1472126412
      ISBN-10 1472126416
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      Entertainment Composers and songwriters Popular music

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      No one explodes one of the longest-held misconceptions of music history better than Steve Lukather and his band Toto. The dominant pop-culture sound of the late-1970s and ''80s was not in fact the smash and sneer of punk, but a slick, polished amalgam of rock and R&B that was first staked out on Boz Scaggs'' Silk Degrees. That album was shaped in large part by the founding members of Toto, who were emerging as the most in-demand elite session muso-crew in LA, and further developed on the band''s self-titled three-million-selling debut smash of 1978. A string of hits followed for the band going into the ''80s and beyond. Running parallel to this, as stellar session players, Lukather and band-mates David Paich, Jeff Porcaro and Steve Porcaro were also the creative linchpins on some of the most successful, influential and enduring records of the era.

      In The Gospel According to Luke, Lukather tells the Toto story: how a group of high school friends formed the band in 1977

      Trade Review
      A lively . . . read . . . great anecdotes . . . Clean and sober at 60, Lukather is in a good place right now and this contented memoir mirrors that status * Classic Rock *

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